The Practitioner Remediation and Enhancement Partnership (PreP 4 Patient Safety) seeks to apply the cooperative model of nursing and physician health programs (also known as practitioner recovery programs, widely used by hospitals and state licensing boards to monitor and treat health care practitioners with drug or alcohol problems,) to the problem of providers whose clinical skills are considered by their peers to be in need of improvement. A number of studies have noted a reluctance to report colleagues as a major factor in the failure to discover these providers. CAC, Adminsitrators in Medicine (AIM: the Association of State Medical and Osteopathic Board Directors), and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) are working together to develop pilot sites for this program. If you have reviewed the public documents and would like to know more about becoming a pilot site, or if you have comments or questions about PREP or this site, contact us.

Introductory and implementation documents from CAC and our participating state boards are available in our document archives.

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